Article: Saddam Hussein threatens computers outside Kuwait. (computer viruses)

Saddam Hussein threatens computers outside Kuwait

It is quite possible that one day you could be opening a file on your IBM computer and, instead of finding a spreadsheet, Saddam Hussein's face would appear on your screen.

Saddam, who is known to roll his eyes at computer users, is one of the newest computer viruses going around, according to John Wack, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which is studying computer viruses.

Computer viruses, which first began infecting the nation's computer screens in 1987, are growing in number of infections and number of species in ...

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